MOSCOW. May 22 (Interfax) - The Russian embassy in Kyiv has been unable to attain permission for consular officials to visit Russian citizens Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Aleksandrov detained in Luhansk for over three days, deputy director Maria Zakharova of the Russian Foreign Ministry's information and press department said on Friday.
"Since receiving the information on the Russians' detention, the Russian embassy has been taking not just necessary, but all possible measures to get consular access to them. Unfortunately, we have been denied such access for over three days now," Zakharova said on Ekho Moskvy radio.